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GPU accelerated GameCI docker containers

work in progess, these docs are only partially complete.

This repo provides 3 examples of custom Dockerfiles for use with GameCI which provide GPU-acceleration on NVIDIA GPU's via the nvidia-container-toolkit.

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Image Types

  1. Standard Images

    Standard images uses the entrypoint.sh script to query the nvidia-container-toolkit for the version of the current driver running on the host machine, then downloads and installs the user-space components into the conatianer. This provides compatibility across disparate hardware, but comes at the cost of a slower start-up time.

  2. Baked Images

    Baked images have had a specific version of the Nvidia driver pre-downloaded and extracted during the build process. This means the runtime components of the driver are available to the container immediately upon boot. This results is a much faster startup at the cost of tying the image to a specific set of hardware and requiring the user to maintain the custom image.

  3. Self-Authenticating Images These images contain a selenium-based automation script that will create a new license-file and activate it at startup. This is useful for using the editor images as a remote-desktop session.

Demo

Video Demo

Motivation

Addresses the following issues:

Enables the following features inside a CI/CD pipeline:

  • Light Baking
  • Screen Recording
  • Performance Testing & Benchmarking
  • Play Testing
  • Basic Remote Development Environments

Changes

The new images are built by sourcing from starndard GameCI editor images and adding the following:

  • User account w/ password for non-root operation
  • X11-based virtual display
  • Basic desktop environment (Xfce4 or KDE)
  • Firefox-esr browser (non-snap)
  • Remote access to the grphical display via VNC (port 5900) or browser (port 8080)
  • Nvidia user-space driver components

Host Preparation

Tested on Ubuntu22.04 and Debain12 hosts.

Requires Nvidia drivers + Container Runtime, or GPU Operator to be installed on the host. See https://github.com/small-hack/smol-metal for instructions.

Auth notes

  • Generate the .alf file
# Dont export usn or pw with quotes

unity-editor -quit \
    -batchmode \
    -nographics \
    -logFile /dev/stdout \
    -createManualActivationFile \
    -username "$USERNAME" \
    -password "$PASSWORD"
  • Run selenium
cd unity-self-auth && \
./license.py ../Unity_v*.alf
  1. Log into the docker-host

  2. Generate a License

  • from https://github.com/buildstar-online/unity-webgl-nginx

    # Create a temporary directoy to work in
    mkdir -p /tmp/scratch
    cd /tmp/scratch
    
    # Export important variables
    export EDITOR_VERSION="2022.1.23f1"
    export EDITOR_IMAGE="deserializeme/gcicudaeditor:latest"
    export SLENIUM_IMAGE="deserializeme/gcicudaselenium:latest"
    export USERNAME="YOUR_EMAIL_HERE"
    export PASSWORD="YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE"
    
    # Change ownership of local dir so the container user can save data to mounted volumes
    chown 1000:1000 .
    touch Unity_v${EDITOR_VERSION}.alf
    
    # Generate the ALF file using the Editor 
    docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd)/Unity_v${EDITOR_VERSION}.alf:/Unity_v${EDITOR_VERSION}.alf \
        --user root \
       $EDITOR_IMAGE \
       unity-editor -quit \
       -batchmode \
       -nographics \
       -logFile /dev/stdout \
       -createManualActivationFile \
       -username "$USERNAME" \
       -password "$PASSWORD"
  1. Authorize the License or Answer 2FA prompt
  • Next try to authorize the license. This may fail due to a 2Factor prompt from Unity. If that happens, you will need to run the [grafical login process].

    docker run --rm -it --user 1000:1000 \
        --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/home/player1/unity-self-auth/Downloads \
        -e USERNAME="$USERNAME" \
        -e PASSWORD="$PASSWORD" \
        -e HEADLESS="True" \
        $SLENIUM_IMAGE \
        ./license.py "./Downloads/Unity_v${EDITOR_VERSION}.alf"
  1. Run the Unity Editor container
  • Mount your project's repo directory as a volume. I'm using https://github.com/buildstar-online/unity-webgl-nginx as an example below.

    docker run --gpus all --rm -it \
      -p 5900:5900 \
      -p 2222:22 \
      --mount type=bind,source=$(pwd),target=/home/player1/Downloads \
      --mount type=bind,source=$(pwd)/unity-webgl-nginx,target=/home/player1/unity-webgl-nginx \
      --user root \
      $EDITOR_IMAGE
  1. Install GPU user-space driver, create xorg.conf, and start X sevices
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/buildstar-online/gameci-docker-extras/main/gpu-enable.sh
export DISPLAY=:0
bash gpu-enable.sh
  1. Connect to container using VNC

  2. Sign-in and start Unity

# Sign-in
sudo /opt/unity/Editor/Unity -quit \
    -batchmode \
    -logFile /dev/stdout \
    -manualLicenseFile /home/player1/Downloads/*.ulf

# Start Editor
sudo /opt/unity/Editor/Unity
  1. Enjoy
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